Issue #0: [Welcome to] Design at Berkeley
About D@B, what we do, new General Meetings, and moving our resources to Substack!
Hello! 👋
We’re Design at Berkeley, a group of students dedicated to making design more accessible at UC Berkeley and provide any student, interested in any form of design, a community to learn and explore design with.
We're moving our design resources to Substack! You're receiving this email because you have expressed interest in the design community before. If you’ve come across this another way and want to get future issues sent straight to your inbox subscribe below!
What We Do
Given the design community's high barrier to entry, which stems from the exclusivity of design organizations, fragmented efforts to increase accessibility, and lack of a design major/minor, we revamped Design at Berkeley in Fall 2019 to address these concerns. We believe anyone can be a designer, and thus those who want to be exposed to, understand or practice design will be welcomed by a group of students to support, teach, and guide them.
1. Resources
Finding resources at Berkeley is just as hard as finding a classroom in Dwinelle 🙃 That's why we're aiming to make it easier to find resources to help you with navigating design at Berkeley. And here's how we do it:
🙌 Design [Advisors] — Need advice for learning design, putting together a portfolio, or pursuing design as a career? Feel free to talk to our Advisors!
📍 [Navigating] Design at Berkeley aka this Substack — Find guides for any stage of your design journey that containing articles that have helped us plus the things we learned along the way. Make sure you're subscribed to stay notified!
📚 Clubs, Classes, DeCals Database — Find existing ways to practice design at Berkeley!
2. Community
Want to meet other designers? 👩🎨 We made a Slack for the entire UC Berkeley Design Community, a place to learn, gain experience, share opportunities, ask questions, and just to have a fun time with design together!
✨Join the community here ✨
3. Events
To uphold our mission, Design at Berkeley events are open to all Berkeley students. You can find previous examples of our events on our Facebook Page, and starting Spring 2021... ‼ we'll be hosting General Meetings ‼️
Every other Thursday from 6-7PM PST, we'll invite speakers, host workshops, plan socials, and more! For now, GMs will be virtual and held over Zoom. The first one will be Thursday, 3/4 and we’ll talk more about it next Issue.
Like everyone else, we also live by Google Calendar, so we made one for all the Design [Events] at Berkeley, add it here and get all Zoom links in one place!
That's it.. for now!
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